March 2004Second International GOCE User Workshop at ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

December 2003
Issue of Request For Quotation (RFQ) for the implementation and operation of the Level 2 High Level Processing Facility to the European GOCE Gravity Consortium (EGG-C)Contract placed with Eurockot Launch Services GmbH for launch of GOCE spacecraft

September 2003Approval of proposals for Scientific pre-processing and External Calibration and Validation of GOCE L1b data products. One proposal approved for development of a Level 2 Data Processing Facility, from the European GOCE Gravity Consortium (EGG-C).

May 2003Release the Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for scientific pre-processing, external calibration and validation of Level 1B GOCE data products